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March 12, 2007
Bush Caves On EarmarksThe OMB was supposed to release a report noting who had requested each earmark and how much each cost the taxpayer. And, of course, who benefits from each. Part of the campaign to inform the public how appropriatotrs spending your money, and paying off well-heeled contributors, in the darkness, without notice, and without your consent as voting citizens. When I heard last week from Hill sources that the White House congressional liason staff was pressuring OMB Director Rob Portman to not release all of the earmarks requested by Members of Congress to executive agencies under the FY2005 budget, I called the OMB press office. Why? Fear of "offending" Congressional appropriators. Perhaps it is Bush's calculation that appeasing the porkers will buy the goodwill necessary to stave off attempts at defunding the war. But that's never worked before, and it's not going to work now. Bush isn't a very good President when it's all said and done, is he? His early life, marked chiefly by taking the path of least resistance, is a fair preamble to his presidency. Yes, the war is a good counter-example; but even his relatively steadfast position on that has been marked, often tragically, by half-steps and ill-advised compromises.
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